Letter to a Friend about LCF200 Training

I highly recommend you attend the LCF200 training. Simply put, this training impacted me deeply and I’d be ever so appreciative if you would consider it too, for yourself.



I attended LCF200 for a couple reasons.

• First, I haven’t been in the field facilitating others recently and all the while Lynette continues to evolve the edges of facilitative leadership and the LearningConnect matrix.


• Second, I wanted to interact with our IdeaConnect customers/clients to see how they are being and connect with them.
  

Silly me, I got much, much more. It was a time to really slow down, become aware of myself as a facilitator, connect with the wisdom that guides facilitation and LC, and have great conversations to create deeper connections. I actually began transforming my work, as increased external activity and connections from others started happening on the third day of training.

I wondered how people might respond to an Ah Ha! & IdeaConnect founder as part of the group, but those thoughts were completely irrelevant. The training isn’t about that, it is about building personal mastery in a group setting. I think this is as important as building mastery in the field facilitating, because in training we take time to be more aware of the underlying structure and systems, which in turn impacts the field work. And during this training, everyone’s experience level is valued and adds to the collective wisdom.



Warmly,
Linda Dudek

LCF200 - Expansive Learning with Grounded Action

Take this sensory tour before reading the BLOG: Imagine you are standing at the bottom of this waterfall. The sound of the water rushing is all you can hear, you can feel it in your body, the rumbling; The mist touches your face, you can see the trees swaying, rocking back and forth, in the wind; You smell the rich, dark earth; and you breath in the cool, crisp air, it tastes of the fresh outdoors.

One of my favorite things that I reflect on at least yearly is my Facilitative Leader SELF within the context of AEIOU! My written reflections are always evolving with my awareness.

During the LCF200 training I recently attended (my IdeaConnect partners were the trainers), my awareness and understanding grew exponentially. Why? Well, they, my partners, have this uncanny way of filling my head and heart until I want to explode and flow everywhere and then they catalyze a process of bringing it right back to tangible in my own life, professionally and personally. It is just magic!

Try having the following 5 models and articulations in the same time/space.
1. Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model,
2. Grove’s Facilitation Model called the Four Flows,
3. Our own IdeaConnect LearningConnect process
4. Lisa Michael’s Elemental Forces of Creation
5. Wholeness Integration (left brain, right brain, head and heart)

OH, you don’t know what AEIOU is….well think of it as your articulation of yourself as a facilitative leader from 5 integral perspectives, and not just any facilitative leader, the unique, one-of-a-kind awesome facilitative leader within yourself. Pretty cool.

Now, look at the picture again. Can you see yourself in the picture? The person standing on a rock in the river? That is how I was being during the training, expanding and grounding!